View of the morada in San Francisco (Costilla County), Colorado. The one story adobe structure has a stucco exterior and a pitched roof covered in tar paper. An open bell tower is on the pitched roof. The building has doors and shuttered windows. The morada was built around 1908 as a meeting house for members of Los Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, also known as the Penitente Brotherhood. The structure is listed in the State Register of Historic Places.

Date

2001?

Notes

Title and content derived from inventory prepared by Kathleen Barlow.; From inventory: "According to legend, Spanish settlers attempted to found a town in the location but encountered resistance from the Ute Indians. The settlers were successful after their patron saint, San Acacio, a Roman soldier, appeared in the sky and frightened away the Utes."; Scanned image from loaned collection.; R7001517610; Digitization sponsored by the Kenneth King Foundation.